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Adam Nayman

Adam Nayman is a contributing editor for Cinema Scope and writes on film for Montage, Sight & Sound, Reverse Shot and Cineaste. He is a lecturer at Ryerson and the University of Toronto and the author of Showgirls: It Doesn’t Suck (ECW Press) and Ben Wheatley: Confusion and Carnage (The Critical Press).

There’s much in the director’s latest that recalls his previous work, but this oblique, often hilarious film also marks a shift to a lighter tone, making it his most interesting work since 2005’s Hidden, writes Adam Nayman.

In Dee Rees’s mythic and superbly acted family saga set in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s, two young men return from the front only to find bigotry and poverty tearing their community apart, writes Adam Nayman.

A frenetic bungled-heist thriller following the former Twilight star on a whirlwind tour of the New York streets, the Safdie brothers’ latest is as morally disorienting as it is cinematically expressive, writes Adam Nayman.